Hunt Begins, Hellerchein!

Pengbo Naqi felt his thoughts go blank for an instant.

When he regained consciousness, his body had become incredibly exhausted, weak as if all his strength had been drained away.

It was almost as if I had been frozen in time, and Aleister had beaten me up before taking the opportunity to escape! Of course, Pengbo Naqi knew that was only an illusion.

Time had not stopped. This was another application of Preservation Art—it had directly "preserved" Duchess Bayard in a safe place. Meanwhile, his own body, tainted by Twilight Power, had been severely suppressed, and the Path of Love power surging within him had consequently declined.

Just as warm blood would quickly freeze and dry up in the cold of a winter night.

Pengbo Naqi had always hated the Path of Twilight.

He refused to acknowledge his own aging, and even more so refused to admit that he had deviated toward the Path of Twilight... This was precisely because of his intense loathing for it.

And now, that lingering, bone-chilling sensation within his body made Pengbo Naqi loathe it even more.

This power... Its aura felt extremely similar to the ice that had previously caused him to fall into hallucinations...

"Twilight—"

Pengbo Naqi spoke through clenched teeth, his voice filled with hatred.

There was no doubt about it.

The special power Duchess Bayard had used earlier had undoubtedly come from the Dark Aspect, Grunewald!

This was not baseless speculation.

The Twilight Power that could even control him, the fact that Winter Angel was currently ascending, the heavy snow blanketing the outside... And he happened to be in Grunewald's home ground. When Aleister had met him, she had also mentioned that Heinrich had been frozen here.

This clearly proved that everything was part of Grunewald's scheme!

No wonder she had